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Billy Bussey

Best known for his digital portfolio located at www.billybussey.com and for his unique 3D Flash animations.

Since 1999, Billy has focused on developing innovative ways to blend Flash, video, and 3D to form a new style of multimedia. His expertise in both vector and raster 3D has brought much attention to his work and enabled him to speak at many Flash conferences.

Billy has created designs and animations for many well-known companies and individuals including Sprite, Fox, General Electric, Merck & Co., Tommy Boy Music, Hyundai, Smirnoff Ice, Coolio, and Michael Jordan.

Site URL: Billy Bussey 

Glen Rhodes 

Game designer, author and musician.

He has been developing games for many years using traditional languages like C and Assembly Language for the Sony Playstation and Windows.

He’s a co-author of the book ‘Flash Games Studio’ from Friends of Ed. He’s also the co-author of a feature-length musical, Chrystanthia.com. He currently works at a dot com Entertainment Group as the lead Flash designer/developer. 

Site URL: Glen Rhodes 

Monnone

Brian Monnones personal website.

Beautiful graphics, a very simple yet effective site. 

Brian Monnone

Brian is more than simply a Flash artist. He is a technologist with a love for great design, motion graphics, and music. Currently, he is a Senior Interactive Designer at nFusion Group in Austin, Texas. His role with nFusion includes creating dynamic Flash demos, videos, and sound design.

His future plans include filmmaking. Becoming a filmmaker has been a lifelong passion for Brian, and until that day comes he’ll continue to create unique multimedia.

Site URL: Monnone 

Sas Jacobs

Sas is a Web developer who loves working with Flash. She set up her business Anything Is Possible in 1994, working in the areas of web development, IT training and technical writing. The business works with large and small clients building web applications with ASP.NET, Flash, XML and databases.

Sas has also spoken at conferences such as Flash Forward, MXDU and FlashKit on topics relating to XML and dynamic content in Flash.

Site URL: Sas Jacobs

Quote: The only way to learn Flash is to work with Flash, especially ActionScripting.

Chris Allen

Technical lead and Flash and Java programmer for the Lab of Computer Science at Mass General Hospital in Boston, MA.

Co-project manager and a Java developer for the Open Source Red5 project.

Chris first started working with Flash beginning in 1999 making websites for bars, restaurants and musicians. Since then he has worked on various projects using Flash as the front end. These include a framework for online portfolio applications, a calendar for musicians, and a clinical messaging system utilizing an XMPP socket server.

Site URL: Red5 

Mike Downey

Sr. Product Manager for Flash at Adobe Systems.

Mike has been passionately involved with web technologies since the late ‘90s when he began working with software like Macromedia Flash, which became the standard for motion and interactivity on the Internet.

Since joining Macromedia in 2000 (which later merged with Adobe Systems) he has strived to share this passion with customers all over the world. As an experienced instructor, presenter, and developer, Mike has met with thousands of designers, developers, and technologists through numerous live and online events.

Mike has been a featured presenter at conferences such as FlashForward, FiTC, Macworld, Spark, WebDU, Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, Macromedia MAX and several others. 

Site URL: Adobe 

Jobe Makar

Lead programmer and co-owner of Electrotank, Inc.

Electrotank games such as Mini Golf, Electro Air Hockey, and Rikomin have earned international awards and have been sited in dozens of publications. Some of Electrotank’s clients include Mattel, Comedy Central, and MTV.

The creator of more than 100 Flash games, Jobe has been working with Flash since version 3.

He has authored or co-authored several books on Flash, including Flash Super Samurai and Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Design Demystified. 

Site URL: Elektrotank 

Danny Patterson

Consultant specializing in Flash and Web technologies, he also works with Schematic as a Senior Flash Architect.

Partner/Author at Community MX and a Member of Team Macromedia Flash. He has also been published in the MX Developer's Journal. 

Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX, Flash MX and Flash MX 2004 Developer.

Has worked on web projects for many large companies including Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Adobe, Starz and Virgin.

He is currently working on the upcoming ActionScript: Training from the Source book by Macromedia Press.

Site URL: Danny Patterson

Darron Schall

Darron has been programming long before he could drive. In school he studied programming languages, ranging from Basic to Pascal to C++ and eventually moving into Java and C# throughout college.

Somewhere in the middle he got hooked on Flash 5 and it's been a crazy love affair ever since.

Darron is an independent consultant specializing in RIA development. He maintains a Flash Platform related weblog and is an active voice in the Flash and Flex communities.

Site URL: Darron Schall